Teaching Requirement Engineering Using Industrial-Infused Project-Based Learning

Abstract

This paper reports the result of an exploratory study conducted to assess (1) the achievement of learning outcomes (LOs) and (2) the perceived effectiveness of students’ learning from Industrial-Infused Project-Based Learning (II-PrBL). The experiment and evaluation were made on the Software Engineering (SE) students in second year who enrolled in the 977-271 Requirement Engineering and System Modeling (RESM) course, semester 1/2019. The result shows that the students were able to think, analyse, integrate and apply the knowledge and skills achieved from the lecture to the real practice in problem-solving based on the industrial case study. They were able to achieve the necessary LOs for the RE course in both specific (hard) and generic (soft) skills. Furthermore, this II-PrBL resulted in the high perceived effectiveness of students’ learning and the strong level of satisfactory teaching.